{"quotes":[{"text":"The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.","author":"Dennis Garvin","tags":["depravity","humanity","sin"],"id":391,"author_id":"Dennis+Garvin"},{"text":"All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does to one's soul, even experienced vicariously in the body of another who is loved. They are written as though they are dirges, laments hidden in the silences and spaces between the words.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["depravity","grief","violence"],"id":4620,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"},{"text":"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.","author":"Barbara W. Tuchman","tags":["conventional-wisdom","culture","depravity","perspective"],"id":5331,"author_id":"Barbara+W.+Tuchman"},{"text":"The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["animals","depravity","desert","friends","jungle","men","mundanity"],"id":7536,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.","author":"Mark Sayers","tags":["anxiety","depravity","regeneration","renewal"],"id":9021,"author_id":"Mark+Sayers"},{"text":"As for the vice of lust - aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since my intent is to treat of the imperfections that have to be purged by means of the dark night - spiritual persons have numerous imperfections, many of which can be called spiritual lust, not because the lust is spiritual but because it proceeds from spiritual things. It happens frequently that in a person's spiritual exercises themselves, without the person being able to avoid it, impure movements will be experienced in the sensory part of the soul, and even sometimes when the spirit is deep in prayer or when receiving the sacraments of Penance or the Eucharist. These impure feelings arise from any of three causes outside one's control. First, they often proceed from the pleasure human nature finds in spiritual exercises. Since both the spiritual and the sensory part of the soul receive gratification from that refreshment, each part experiences delight according to its own nature and properties. The spirit, the superior part of the soul, experiences renewal and satisfaction in God; and the sense, the lower part, feels sensory gratification and delight because it is ignorant of how to get anything else, and hence takes whatever is nearest, which is the impure sensory satisfaction. It may happen that while a soul is with God in deep spiritual prayer, it will conversely passively experience sensual rebellions, movements, and acts in the senses, not without its own great displeasure. This frequently happens at the time of Communion. Since the soul receives joy and gladness in this act of love - for the Lord grants the grace and gives himself for this reason - the sensory part also takes its share, as we said, according to its mode. Since, after all, these two parts form one individual, each one usually shares according to its mode in what the other receives. As the Philosopher says: Whatever is received, is received according to the mode of the receiver. Because in the initial stages of the spiritual life, and even more advanced ones, the sensory part of the soul is imperfect, God's spirit is frequently received in this sensory part with this same imperfection. Once the sensory part is reformed through the purgation of the dark night, it no longer has these infirmities. Then the spiritual part of the soul, rather than the sensory part, receives God's Spirit, and the soul thus receives everything according to the mode of the Spirit.","author":"San Juan de la Cruz","tags":["communion","depravity","eucharist","fallen-nature","holy-spirit","lust","sin"],"id":10666,"author_id":"San+Juan+de+la+Cruz"},{"text":"Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.","author":"Andrew Murray","tags":["depravity","sin"],"id":15307,"author_id":"Andrew+Murray"},{"text":"God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.","author":"David Platt","tags":["bible","depravity","theology","word-of-god"],"id":15680,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are.","author":"Rosaria Champagne Butterfield","tags":["depravity","flesh","mistakes","sin"],"id":33205,"author_id":"Rosaria+Champagne+Butterfield"},{"text":"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.","author":"Arthur C. Clarke","tags":["depravity","evolution"],"id":38010,"author_id":"Arthur+C.+Clarke"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":91,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}